Help! I animated my styles by accident...

tiger · Post by **tiger** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:02 pm

Í'm new at this so... When I was creating styles for my character I accidentally moved to other frames in the timeline before I was finished. So now my character changes fill and outline colour at random points in the timeline.

Is there an easy way of getting my styles "unanimated"? I can't see any keyframes (which I obviously must have created), so I don't know exactly where the animation occurs... I want my character to look the way it does in frame 0.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:07 pm

Click on the settings button on the timeline.

In the window that pops up you can click on the different things that get key frames.

Check the ones for fill and stroke. Those keys will now be visible in the timeline and can be deleted.

-vern

tiger · Post by **tiger** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:16 pm

Well, I've tried that already, and no keyframes occur... I even tried selecting "clear animation from document" in the Animation menu, and my styles still change color and fill. What have I missed?

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:42 pm

I'm stumped.

Those things should have fixed it...

I do know that changing fill effects, like key framing gradients etc... don't have "visible" keys and are difficult to remove.

There is a situation that happens to me every once in a while...

I key a fill color or stroke on a frame other than 0. I try to delete the key frame and it won't.

I have to copy that key to frame 0 first before I can delete the key.

You could try this... but other than that I am clueless.

-vern

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:51 pm

Perhaps you forgot to use the correct Timeline Settings:

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:54 pm

I just tested this out...

It should work. I created a style and changed it in the timeline... saw the keys... deleted the keys...

Are you sure you clicked the right things in the timeline settings?

You want that... bean shaped thingy with the stroke to be checked... the fill color... and the stroke color.... may want to check the "selected fill color" as well just to be sure.

-vern

EDIT:
Thanks Rasheed... i was too lazy to post a screen shot. I chose descriptive words like, "bean shaped thingy".

Another odd thing is the "clear animation" not working. That should do it regardless of the timeline settings.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:59 pm

Hah!

Make sure you have the style SELECTED in the STYLE PALETTE to see the keys!

If the style with a key frame is NOT SELECTED in the style palette the keys don't show!

I would bet a bunch of... chips... or.. cookies... that is the problem.

-vern

tiger · Post by **tiger** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:03 pm

Thanks! But the problem was this: I had to select the right layer AND right style in the Style window for my unwanted keyframes to show up so I could delete them. I'm just blind and/or stupid

Although I would have expected ALL keyframes to disappear when clicked "clear animation from document"...

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:12 pm

It is easy to select ERASE ALL ANIMATION FROM LAYER instead of the same from DOCUMENT. Ah well, if you didn't make mistakes...

... you wouldn't learn anything nor be humbled by the limitations of your brains.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:38 pm

Hmm....

When I tested... I didn't have to select the "right layer". If the keys were in the style the keys showed on any layer selected.

-vern